Re: alsa sound card
From: TCS (The-Central-Scrutinizer_at_p.o.b.o.x.com)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:36:25 -0500
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:29:04 -0400, R Smith <rsm___@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:30:12 -0700, ivo welch wrote:
>> I own a terratec 24/96 card, which sort of works in ALSA as ICE1712
>> [Envy24] (rev 02) under stock linux 10.0. Alas, emphasis is on "sort
>> of." A variety of programs, such as the realaudio player, do not
>> really work. (Used to, but no longer. now sounds like mickey mouse.)
>> some other programs also like to crash. the kde mixer fails, so I
>> have no easy volume control, even in xmms. I have pretty much had it
>> with fiddling with this sort-of-sound stuff. (I also believe that the
>> onboard ADI1980 from my Asus k8v MB is not supported.)
>>
>> I really want a decent sounding card with low noise level for music,
>> not for gaming. Is there any modern, affordable (~$100) sound card
>> that is highly recommended, where everything really works under ALSA?
>> I could even do USB, if it were well supported, and reasonably
>> plug-and-play, preferably working without soaking up too much bus and
>> cpu time.
>>
>> the ALSA website has tons of manufacturers, but no clear
>> recommendations---and many of the sound cards are ancient. help!!!
>>
>> sincerely, /iaw
>That should show Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1
>which has loadable sound fonts (sfxload) for good midi,
>can use the game port for external midi. You can use alsa
>or oss or alsa-oss (emulation) and have multi channels.
>Record with 'record', or sox, whatever.
The sb live isn't recomended for recording but is good for playback.
For recording, just about any other other soundcard will do a better job.
The sblive does so much garbage to the captured signal that by the time
it is done with it, it sounds little better than FM with multipath distortion.
For s/pdif, I wouldn't be surprised if the signal is converted to analog
and back to digital before it makes it's way through the sound card. Sure
sounded like it.
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